top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-03-09

US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s

https://ukrainetoday.org/us-ends-support-for-ukrainian-f-16s-but-french-mirages-will-be-salvation-forbes/

11 months ago

1184 upvotes – 2215 comments

It is as if you were on your phone

https://pippinbarr.com/it-is-as-if-you-were-on-your-phone/info/

11 months ago

852 upvotes – 132 comments

My 16-month theanine self-experiment

https://dynomight.net/theanine/

11 months ago

817 upvotes – 435 comments

Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

11 months ago

568 upvotes – 263 comments

Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index

https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/

11 months ago

543 upvotes – 176 comments

Apple Exclaves

https://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c37194

11 months ago

471 upvotes – 217 comments

I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days

https://twitter.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1898674257808515242

11 months ago

458 upvotes – 490 comments

Layoffs Don't Work

https://thehustle.co/originals/why-layoffs-dont-work

11 months ago

407 upvotes – 754 comments

Switching from Pyenv to Uv

https://bluesock.org/~willkg/blog/dev/switch_pyenv_to_uv.html

11 months ago

351 upvotes – 231 comments

Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its adherence and adoption

https://github.com/openui/open-ui

11 months ago

348 upvotes – 102 comments

Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app

https://github.com/johnbean393/Sidekick

11 months ago

325 upvotes – 92 comments

With AI you need to think bigger

https://rodyne.com/?p=1828

11 months ago

305 upvotes – 167 comments

Show HN: I built an app to get daily wisdom from Mr. Worldwide

https://daale.club/

11 months ago

302 upvotes – 81 comments

Gleam v1.9

https://gleam.run/news/hello-echo-hello-git/

11 months ago

240 upvotes – 71 comments

Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany, Australia, and China

https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesla-sales-falling-off-a-cliff-globally-including-germany-australia-and-china/

11 months ago

227 upvotes – 296 comments

Stem cell therapy trial reverses "irreversible" damage to cornea

https://newatlas.com/biology/stem-cell-therapy-reverses-irreversible-damage-cornea/

11 months ago

224 upvotes – 49 comments

Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/dare_europe_risc_v_project/

11 months ago

219 upvotes – 219 comments

A Post Mortem on the Gino Case

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/08/a-post-mortem-on-the-gino-case-committing-fraud-is-right-now-a-viable-career-strategy-that-can-propel-you-at-the-top-of-the-academic-world/

11 months ago

194 upvotes – 119 comments

Building websites with lots of little HTML pages

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/lots-of-little-html-pages/

11 months ago

193 upvotes – 86 comments

Magnesium Self-Experiments

https://gwern.net/nootropic/magnesium

11 months ago

193 upvotes – 131 comments

Posthog/.cursorrules

https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/.cursorrules

11 months ago

193 upvotes – 93 comments

An investigation into egg prices

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/hatching-a-conspiracy-a-big-investigation

11 months ago

192 upvotes – 175 comments

Goravel: A Go framework inspired by Laravel

https://www.goravel.dev

11 months ago

178 upvotes – 161 comments

Dithering in Colour

https://obrhubr.org/dithering-in-colour

11 months ago

168 upvotes – 65 comments

My stupid noise journey (2023)

https://dynomight.net/noise/

11 months ago

164 upvotes – 190 comments

Building an open-source Wi-Fi Mac layer for the ESP32

https://esp32-open-mac.be

11 months ago

161 upvotes – 25 comments

Scientists discover an RNA that repairs DNA damage

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-discovered-an-rna-that-repairs-dna-damage-and-its-a-game-changer/

11 months ago

155 upvotes – 29 comments

El Salvador's crypto experiment ends in failure

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/03/02/el-salvadors-wild-crypto-experiment-ends-in-failure

11 months ago

151 upvotes – 121 comments

Online Embedded Rust Simulator

https://wokwi.com/rust

11 months ago

150 upvotes – 22 comments

Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 in Taking over the Mono Project

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Framework-Mono-6.14

11 months ago

150 upvotes – 45 comments

Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikes

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/global-coffee-trade-grinding-halt-hit-hard-by-brutal-prices-hikes-2025-03-07/

11 months ago

145 upvotes – 140 comments

ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-columbia-protests

11 months ago

141 upvotes – 172 comments

Show HN: Evolving Agents Framework

https://github.com/matiasmolinas/evolving-agents

11 months ago

139 upvotes – 37 comments

OpenAPK – open-source Apps for Android, updated weekly

https://www.openapk.net

11 months ago

132 upvotes – 72 comments

Internationalization-puzzles: Daily programming puzzles just like Advent of Code

https://i18n-puzzles.com/

11 months ago

131 upvotes – 6 comments

H3: For indexing geographies into a hexagonal grid, by Uber

https://h3geo.org/

11 months ago

130 upvotes – 45 comments

Poland says it may need alternative to Musk’s Starlink in Ukraine

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-says-it-may-need-alternative-musks-starlink-ukraine-2025-03-09/

11 months ago

127 upvotes – 71 comments

Nickel superconductor works above -233°C threshold at normal pressure

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-nickel-superconductor-233c-threshold-pressure.html

11 months ago

125 upvotes – 24 comments

Apple rearranged its XNU kernel with exclaves

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/08/kernel_sanders_apple_rearranges_xnu/

11 months ago

111 upvotes – 17 comments

Compiling C++ with the Clang API

https://maskray.me/blog/2025-03-09-compiling-c++-with-clang-api

11 months ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

Orange Pi RV2 is a single-board PC with an 8-core RISC-V processor

https://liliputing.com/orange-pi-rv2-is-a-single-board-pc-with-an-8-core-risc-v-processor/

11 months ago

98 upvotes – 44 comments

Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust

https://lwn.net/Articles/1007907/

11 months ago

98 upvotes – 166 comments

Ruth Belville, the "Greenwich Time Lady" (2022)

https://eehe.org.uk/72742/ruth-belville-she-sold-time/

11 months ago

95 upvotes – 82 comments

Constant-Time Code: The Pessimist Case [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/435.pdf

11 months ago

92 upvotes – 66 comments

ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8

11 months ago

88 upvotes – 30 comments

Open source software for modeling soft materials

https://now.tufts.edu/2025/03/04/now-theres-open-source-software-modeling-soft-materials

11 months ago

87 upvotes – 15 comments

Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/despite-the-hype-doge-hasnt-found

11 months ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

How to Implement a Cosine Similarity Function in TypeScript

https://alexop.dev/posts/how-to-implement-a-cosine-similarity-function-in-typescript-for-vector-comparison/

11 months ago

86 upvotes – 40 comments

We built a modern data stack from scratch and reduced our bill by 70%

https://jchandra.com/posts/data-infra/

11 months ago

83 upvotes – 59 comments

DOGE's government cuts may hurt business, companies warn investors

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/09/doge-companies-warnings-sec-filings/

11 months ago

82 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Daylight – track sunrise / sunset times in your terminal

https://github.com/jbreckmckye/daylight

11 months ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Vilhelm Hammershøi: the eminence in greys

https://www.richardmorris.org/blog-1-1/vilhelm-hammershi-the-eminence-in-greys

11 months ago

78 upvotes – 6 comments

Neonatal fungi: lifelong metabolic health via macrophage β cell development

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn0953

11 months ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

In contrast to Earth, Mars's middle atmosphere appears driven by gravity waves

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-contrast-earth-mars-middle-atmosphere.html

11 months ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

Idiomatic Go (2016)

https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/idiomatic-go

11 months ago

72 upvotes – 67 comments
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